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Originally Posted by Luis_GT
TC/VSC off won't make the car more tail happy, if it was that way, TC/VSC would be working all the time making small corrections, which it isn't. And if it's always activating on your car, then you're a bad driver.
It wasn't till 2012 where TC became a mandatory feature on cars sold in the US, iirc. I never lost control of a car in all the years I've been driving cars without traction control, so why would I lose control now just because the car came with TC as a feature? 
The only smug people here are you guys who say that having TC off = road hazzard... it's the same smuggness that prius drivers have against gas guzzlers. They are "saving" the environment, and everyone else should do the same and buy hybrids. If not, you're a prick, scum, waste of a human. |
At the risk of repeating the obvious:
You're driving a car that was *designed* to oversteer/slide *at low speeds on dry pavement* with TC/VSC turned off. We've all seen Clarkson slide at 30 mph while reading a book. That's great fun under controlled conditions where you won't kill yourself or anyone else when you lose it. Its foolish and irresponsible to drive it that way in traffic on public highways in bad weather.
And once more:
Your entire driving history and general awesomeness are meaningless in traffic on a wet road at 70 miles an hour. The car's momentum and kinetic energy are enormous at that speed, and we know the rear end likes to come out. You're *not physically capable* of recovering from an unintended slide caused by some idiot in a Corolla cutting you off, making you jerk the wheel; you simply can't react fast enough, and the car *will* want to oversteer. You also can't avoid careening into the mom/baby in the next lane over. The VSC is your only hope. Physics, mechanics, you know.. engineer stuff.
On the track, go for it. There's a consensually shared risk among the drivers, fewer cars, and (one hopes) more skilled drivers.
Of course, you'll do what you like. What's puzzling is that you should be able to work this out yourself. Don't design any bridges.